This Week in Palestine Week April 12-18
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators meet this week, still talks bared no fruit, meanwhile on the ground Israeli army attacks let a Palestinian dead and another worker injured this week.
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Latin America
Isabel Allende on Gabriel García Márquez in Exclusive Interview
In an exclusive interview, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende remembers the life and legacy of late writer Gabriel García Márquez. She reads from his landmark novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and talks about how García Márquez influenced generations of thinkers and writers in Latin America and across the world.
Read MoreGabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Author of 100 Years of Solitude Dies at 87
Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize for Literature 1982 and author of the monumental “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, one of the most translated and read novels in the world, died today at age 87 in Mexico City,
Read MoreThis Week in Palestine Week April 5-11)
While Israeli attacks targeting the West Bank and Gaza leave four injure this week, the Palestinian President formally signed up to the Geneva Conventions this week.
Read MoreSeventy-two Cuban Women Freed from Forced Prostitution in Ecuador
The Ecuadorian police informed today of the rescue of 72 Cuban women forced into prostitution by a band dedicated to sexual exploitation and migrant smuggling, reported dpa news service.
Read MoreMaduro Dares US to Punish Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has dismissed statements by US officials warning about the possibility of sanctions against his country and even dared the superpower to carry out its threats, DPA reported.
Read MoreVenezuela: Ice Breaking Meeting between Government and Opposition
The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, met with a delegation of the opposition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) to find common ground for a possible dialogue to overcome the situation of turmoil following nearly two months of antigovernment protests, reports dpa news.
Read MoreThis Week in Palestine Week March 29 – April 4
This week Israel refused to release the last wave of Palestinian political detainees meanwhile Israeli troops and settlers attacks targeting West Bank communities left five injured this week. These stories and more, coming up, stay tuned.
Read MoreIs USAID the New CIA? Agency Secretly Built Cuban Twitter Program
The communications network was called “ZunZuneo” — slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet. It was reportedly built with secret shell companies financed through foreign banks. The US planned to use the platform to spread political content that might trigger a Cuban Spring.
Read MoreUS Defends Its “Cuba Twitter”
The US government said today that its program to create a “Cuban twitter” was not a covert action or intelligence gathering, but a properly supervised project for “strengthening civil society” in Cuba. Another clandestine USAID effort involving telecommunications equipment landed agent Alan Gross in a Havana jail with a 15-year sentence.
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